Monthly Archives: May 2017

A Quick Hello, Praying with my Sisters and Brothers in Holy Faith

Home Keeping

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Perhaps I have misunderstood and if so please forgive, but it seems right to share one of my prayers with you today.

Abba. Thank You for this huge privilege of cleaning; floors, toilets, the whole of it. Thank You that You elevate these housekeeping tasks to blessings for our families, even for You; for You because You gave us these homes and it is to Your glory that we care for them in appreciation and thanksgiving for Your abundant grace in providing them. I pray to be balanced in this caring, perfection is desirable but not practical and I know well perfection quickly becomes an idol so that we resist. We aim for clean, healthy, comfortable, modesty in decor and a welcoming atmosphere for us who live here and those that You in Your grace allow to visit in our homes. And, Abba, make us hospitable people. Huh, Abba, if I spelled that right being welcoming and operating in hospitality is a form of the word hospital. Wow, make our homes places where those, even our own can come and find healing for what ails them. Oh, Abba, that is huge. Thank You so much. Amen and amen in Jesus welcoming and holy name.

Kathie

Gospel of John

Honest Thomas

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Can you imagine? Perhaps like me you do not have to imagine.

John 14 TLV: 3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to Myself, so that where I am you may also be. 4 And you know the way to where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to Him, “Master, we don’t know where You are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Yeshua said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through Me.  source

Verse 3. Yeshua (Jesus) promised the Disciples (them and us) that He was going to prepare a place for them and that He would return for them to take them to the place He would prepare.  And in verse 4 He states you know the way to where I am going. I would think it might be a question rather than a statement were it not for Thomas.  

Honest Thomas!  

I wonder if Yeshua gave just a hint of a grin. A grin to reassure Honest Thomas that his question was acceptable. Acceptable because it was an honest inquiry even though it just might have come across like this (allow me to paraphrase): 

Uh. Rabbi. Uh. Sir. I don’t mean to disagree with You, Sir. But, no, Sir, we do not know the way. I don’t recall You mentioning this before. So what do You mean we know the way? 

Honest questions. 

Verse 6. Do you read a rebuke? Nope. Me either. I see a kind, patient, loving explanation; even though they should have learned already; He instructs them again. 

Sad to say it is fallen human nature to argue and question GOD.  It just is. Unregenerate man just thinks he or she knows more and better than GOD.  What can I say? It’s true. We argue with Him. We dispute Him. We question Him.

And you know what? He knows when that questioning is honest and when it is arrogant.  The honest ones often get His loving, patient explanation.  And if the explanation is not forthcoming, that means we have been given something even better: an opportunity to trust.

Honest Thomas. I love the man! 

If the Church does not rise ~ ~ ~
Kathie
Exodus, From the Quietness of the War Room, You Tubes

What Else?

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From the Quietness of the War Room, I asked what does my Tribe need today? Protection I think.
Protection from the elements.
Protection from the enemy.
Protection from their own flesh (their wants that do not speak Your glory).
What else?
Hearts and minds to love You most – before their jobs, their children, their spouses, their homes, their vehicles, their toys, their electronics (and what those devices bring to their senses), their bellies (appetites), their reputations, their every belonging (owned or financed).
What else?
A love that makes them hungry and thirsty for Your Word and Your Company.

Exodus 20: TLV 3 “Have no gods other than Me. source

So what makes a god?
What makes an idol?   An image used as an object of worship. A false god. One that is adored, often blindly or excessively. 

So anything I love more or adore more than GOD becomes my idol.

Certainly, I must pray no idols for me, no idols for my Tribe. Help us Adonai to tear down and forsake all our idols, however close or far they may be.
 
If the Church does not Rise ~ ~ ~ 
Kathie

After catching a brief round of media I’m not so sure the word Tribe is a great word choice.
Please know my usage has NO leanings toward the liberal leftist ideology. 

Ezra

Minority

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Ezra of the Old Testament.

Chapter 7.

  6 This Ezra was a scribe who was well versed in the Law of Moses, which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given to the people of Israel. He came up to Jerusalem from Babylon, and the king gave him everything he asked for, because the gracious hand of the Lord his God was on him. source 

9 . . . for the gracious hand of his God was on him. source

Have you ever felt like the gracious hand of God is just not resting on you right now? Like not only is His gracious hand not on me but it feels like He is purposely withholding the good things I need?

If you have not I think you just might be in the minority. 

Ezra. Do you wonder why GOD was so gracious to Ezra?  Verse 10 answers that question. 

10 This was because Ezra had determined to study and obey the Law of the Lord and to teach those decrees and regulations to the people of Israel. source

So. If that times comes again that I feel GOD is against me instead of for me, I shall remind myself of verse 10 and I shall get back on track just as verse 10 prescribes. For such feelings will clearly indicate that I have been allowing myself to meditate on ME and my situations instead of Him, His Word and the good of others. 

Abba, thank You that You are always good, You are always gracious and You always love us even when we doubt You. I pray we will diligently study, obey and serve Your Word and when we fail; thank You that You will remind us and work with us to get us back on track. Thank You, Adonai. 

If the Church Does not Rise ~ ~ ~ ,
Kathie